Because itâ€™s starting to get darker earlier, this evening for the first time since last winter, I turned on the three-way lamp in the living room. The living roomâ€™s rather large, and needs more than two ceiling lights during winter.

This was the first time Iâ€™d used this particular lamp, which Iâ€™d gotten at a garage sale last spring. Iâ€™d chosen it because itâ€™s rather aesthetic, made of fake marble and crystal, and about as heavy as lead.

However, I forgot to pay attention to one little detail.

The â€œmarbleâ€ and the lamp-shade are dark green, almost black.

And so now Iâ€™m wondering; what is the purpose of a lamp whose shade is so dark hardly any of the light from the bulb shines out?

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Aren't the lamps with dark shades for reading? To focus more of the light only downward where it is needed without lighting up the whole room?

I can see where that would be useful if one had it in the corner of their bedroom, by a chair. They could read without disturbing their husband/wife who was sleeping.

Just before coming back here, I'd taken the green ceramic three-way lamp with the big white shade out of the bedroom, putting that into the living room, and placing this other one on the bedside table in the bedroom.

You're right; it deflects the light downward, illuminating what one's reading in bed. And by fortuitous chance, the height--the bedside table, the lamp, the bed--are exactly the optimal heights.

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